Dhaka. Five people were killed and four others injured when a speeding truck rammed into passengers waiting on the side of a bus on the outskirts of the southeastern city of Chattogram in Bangladesh on Tuesday morning.
According to Islam, a senior official of the local police, after a technical fault occurred in a bus in Sitakunda on the Dhaka-Chattagram highway, the passengers got off the vehicle and were waiting on the roadside. Meanwhile, the accident happened on Tuesday morning around 1:30 am.
“The driver of the speeding truck lost control and hit a group of passengers. Three people died on the spot in the accident,” he said.
According to him, two others died while being taken to the hospital or after reaching the hospital. The police said that four other passengers of the bus who were injured in the accident are being treated at the hospital.